Forging a Steak Turner with Bryan Dale Headley
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- Опубліковано 14 тра 2017
- Bryan Dale Headley, The Singing Blacksmith, demonstrates the step-by[step process in making a steak turner with an ornamental horse head handle.
Bryan begins introducing the forge and some of his forging tools. He then forges the steel bar by drawing it out to form the horse neck. He uses a “hold fast” to secure the bar to the anvil. He finesses a punch and chisels to make a mouth, eye, ear, mane and mouth on the horse handle.
Bryan continues to pull the end of the bar out to an elongated point. He uses the anvil point to hammer the point into a twisted hook. Finally he uses the vice and clamps to forge a twisted handle below the horse head.
Techniques learned in this detailed video:
Hammering a horse head shape
Using punches and chisels for decorative details
Forging a twisted handle
Forging a sharp hook
Hammering on a wooden block with a wooden hammer.
Brian’s explanations as well as close up video of the anvil work makes this easy to follow.
Watch other Bryan Dale Headley video on Rural Heritage’s UA-cam channel:
Forging an Fire Poker
Forging a J-Hook
Forging an Unfolded Cross
Forging a Shepherd's Hook - Домашні улюбленці та дикі тварини
Bryan, I must say that, after watching hundreds of Smithing videos, yours are the very best!
You are a very good teacher and every aspect of what and why you are doing a certain technique is explained very well! I wish I had started out seeing you work! It would have uncomplicated many things, for me!
I have been dabbling at Blacksmithing for over 30 years and now, being medium disabled I can't move a lot of metal because all the cartilage is being eaten out of each of my joints! It makes a lot of thing difficult if not, nearly impossible!
However, I can still make small things like this steak turner, which I have been making variations of for over 20 years, and fire pokers, strikers and such! They all sell and I used to be a rendezvouser and trader at them, selling my wares and my wife's Native beadwork and other Native crafts!
Since being disabled in 2000, I seldom go to the rendezvous but, I'm thinking about going back for a summer and selling what I've been making!
Thanks so much for the very instructive videos you produce!
I have subscribed and will be going back and watching ALL of your videos and all the new ones you film!
Thanks, again!
Best wishes!
Kim Curtis
Thank you so much for your comment! Our goal is to present the trade in as easy to understand way as we possibly can and we never truly know if we hit the mark without the feedback of our viewers. Best wishes to you my friend and God bless!
Bryan, you are a very good teacher. Thanks for taking the time in creating great videos.Keep them coming.
lepere joe
Thank you and best wishes with your forging!
Thanks for sharing
I recently saw a steak flipper that can be used for left or right handed people. It resembles a bat with small curves under the wings.
thanks for sharing.I have made some steak turners out of the railroad spikes and recently did a video on one i have made.I did one a while back that looked like a bull with the bull horns.
About how long is the stock you start with before you draw it out?
Jon Whitehead
I start with 12 inches of 1/2 × 1/2 stock
THE SINGING BLACKSMITH I had some round that I used and squared off where needed after watching this. Really enjoyed making it. I used it already! I ended up turning the steaks by holding in front of the horse head handle. Just felt natural to twist the steak around. I can see making another with a straight design like you mentioned.
Jon Whitehead
Great! It is a great feeling to make something that also has a good use